HONORS, GRANTS,
AND AWARDS {small cactus}

INTERNATIONAL

J. William Fulbright Fellowship to participate in Summer Seminar on Landeskunde, June/July 1982, Bonn and Berlin; Federal Republic of Germany.

Selected for participation in three-week seminar "Berlin 1984: Leben im Spannungsfeld derdeutsch-deutschen Beziehungen," Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, November/December 1984 (funded by Goethe Institute).

Invited to participate in International Conference on Cultural Bias in Language Textbooks, Braunschweig,F.R.G., July 1985 (funded by the United States National Committee of theInternational Institute of Communications, Inc., and the Georg-Eckert-Institut).

Selected as one of three Americansto participate in a week-long International Textbook Authors' Symposium, Schwerin, October 1985; Gera, September 1987; and Köthen, September 1989,German Democratic Republic (funded partially by the Committee for Language Instruction in the German Democratic Republic).

Selected for participation inten-day seminar "Erlebte Literatur," Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, July 1986 (partially funded by Goethe Institute).

Selected for participation in three-week institute on "Erlebte Landeskunde," Studienhaus Wiesneckb. Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany, June-July 1988 (partially funded byGoethe Institute).

Awarded Verdienstkreuz ersterKlasse (Order of Merit First Class [highest civilian award]) by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, May 1990.

J. William Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research in Colombia, South America, spring semester 1997.

 

NATIONAL

NDEA Academic-Year Fellowship,University of Colorado, 1962-63.

Outstanding Young Women of America Award, 1976.

Awarded grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to conduct "A Survey of Successful Undergraduate Foreign Language Programs in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education," 1977 ($20,837).

Selected by Editorial Board of Modern Language Journal of "Literature and Readability: Bridging the Gapin Foreign Language Reading" as one of three best articles published in the Modern Language Journal during 1981.

Selected for participation in ACTFL/ETS Oral Proficiency Testing Workshop, Washington, DC, February 1983(funded by U.S. Department of Education).

Stephen A. Freeman Award for best published article on teaching techniques published in 1983. Awarded by the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, New York, 1984.

Awarded Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in Furthering the Teaching of German in U.S. Schools by the American Association of Teachers of German and the Goethe Institute, New York, November 1985.

Elected Vice President/President Elect, American Association of Teachers of German, 1988-1991.

Awarded $24,000 from the American Association of Teachers of German to support participation of U.S. German Teachers in 1989 LSA/MLA Summer Institute.

Invited to serve as Visiting Distinguished Professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. CO for the academic year 1990-91.

ACTFL's Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education, San Antonio, TX, November 1993.

ACTFL-NYSAFLT Anthony Papalia Awardfor Excellence in Teacher Education, Salt Lake City, UT, November 2002.

Best Article Award for the 2002 Volume of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German for “Hilft es die Regel zu wissen um sie anzuwenden? Das Verhältnis von metalinguistischem Bewusstsein und grammatischer Kompetenz in DaF.” Awarded by the American Association of Teachers of German, Philadelphia, PA, November 2003.

 

 

REGIONAL/LOCAL

Creative Teaching Award, University of Arizona Foundation, October 1984.

Awarded $33,557 in EESA funds from Arizona Board of Regents to support participation of Arizona foreign language teachers in 1989 LSA/MLA Summer Institute.

"Outstanding Service to Foreign Language Education Award" from the Arizona Foreign Language Association, Tempe, AZ, Fall 1989.

RETURN TO: Renate A. Schulz, Ph.D.{small cactus}